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ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Orgasms are normal, healthy and necessary

Yes, yes, no.

While orgasms are normal and can potentially have some physical and mental benefits, there is no physical or mental necessity to have them (plenty of asexual and otherwise celibate people of all different kinds out there to prove it).

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lung@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don’t agree, in the experience of my friend circle, if you don’t release for a while:

you start having wet dreams

prostate harm - increased rates of prostate cancer in multiple studies - and my friend developed pelvic floor issues

the “mental harm” is having to walk around horny all the time, constantly thinking of sex, and affecting your interactions

even celibate people mostly masturbate, that’s not what it means. Including many confessions from priests
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- ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Well done, you’ve provided some anecdotal benefits, which I didn’t deny exist.
  
  However none of them demonstrate necessity.
  
  Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, shitting - those are necessities.
  
  Having orgasms is not, no matter how much you try to convince yourself and others.
  
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  - lung@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Sure you don’t “have to” bathe but you’ll have a bad time if you don’t
    
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- lseif@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  the “mental harm” is having to walk around horny all the time, constantly thinking of sex, and affecting your interactions
  
  this is not a problem which normal people face. if you are constantly thinking about sex, you may have an addiction or an otherwise unhealthy relationship with sex
  
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  - lung@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Hey man don’t shame ppl for normal variance in sex drive. Being horny is not a disease
    
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